1/3 I want to wire my house for ethernet. 4 plug jacks in the walls,
a hub somewhere near the cable modem, etc. Anyone does this? Got
any advice? Got the name of contractors to use/avoid? Thanks!
\_ unless you need to be > 10MB, I suggest you to go wireless.
\_ You mean 10Mb
\_ I'd rather not have wireless.
\_ Not too hard to DIY - just punching holes for the backplates
and then snaking the cable. And since you're already doiing
it, consider wiring for a/v too.
\_I'll do it for you for $50 a jack plus hard cost. williamc
\_ Wow, I was thinking about posting this same message.
I figure I can do with a trip to Fry's and my attic. Just follow
the path of my existing telephone cables. Any known gotchas?
Don't trust wireless, plus I want 100Mb between my hosts.
Recommendations for cheap quality switch?
Anyone do fiber? Difficult? Expensive?
\_do you own a bandsaw and fishing cable? williamc
\_why bandsaw? can use existing phone jacks but just add an
RJ45 jack and change faceplate, right?
\_ http://arstechnica.com/guide/networking/installation-1.html

1.3 to anyone out there doing board work: do you happen to know where
i could buy some sort of rack to hold and easily dispense all
my resistors, etc., or what i would even type into google to
search for such a thing? seen anything in the labs that
might be useful that i could check out? thanks for your help.
\_ allied electronics probably has what you want.
here is a relevant catalog page:
http://www.alliedelec.com/catalog/pf.asp?FN=22.pdf
they have pretty decent online ordering.
for resistors, large numbers of small drawers with labels
is probably your best bet.
\_ This is exactly what I've seen in the hardware labs. --dim

1/3 I'm trying to find an english equivalent of the chinese word (mandarin)
"sa chiao". Roughly it means to cuddle up with somebody. Usually
describes a woman or a young daughter. What's a good english word
that captures that meaning? Thanks.
\_ snuggle? I don't know mandarin. Just going by your description.
I can't think of any age/gender specific terms for this.
\_ you have to know mandarin to translate it. The word doesn't
just describe the physical act but also the relationship between
the two.
\_ Sorry, just a white boy doing his best to help.
\_ There are a couple of Chinese-English dictionary online if u do
a google search. I tried 3 and only manage to find "sa3 jiao1"
(to use mainland's pinyin romanization) on 1 of them. It says
"fawn, coquetry". Doesn't seem exactly right. Using dict on
soda for coquetry yields:
Coquetry \Co*quet"ry\, n.; pl. {Coquetries}. [F. coquetterie.]
Attempts to attract admiration, notice, or love, for the mere
gratification of vanity; trifling in love. ``Little
affectations of coquetry.'' --Addison.
coquetry
n : playful behavior intended to arouse sexual interest [syn:
{flirt}, {flirting}, {flirtation}, {dalliance}, {toying}]
No single word feels exactly right.
\_ Thanks. I think this is one of the thousands of words that
can't be translated well. The connotation of "sa chiao"
means more than the physical act of "sa chiao".
\_ Yes, from seeing it being actually used, it usually
involves speaking in an amorous manner, for lack of
a better description.
\_ "sa chiao"? i thought that's bbq pork.
\_ cha siu, you troll.
\_ You mean sa jiao(and the j is much better than ch- in this case),
and the word has more connotation than just to cuddle/snuggle:
It's commonly used to describe a playful acting type behaviour
intended to be cute or innocent, not necessarily amorous. The
above poster's mention of coquetry seems to be the best fit, but
not quite. I would go with playful coquetry, and specify in usage
whether the intentions are amorous or not. Btw, I normally hear
it pronounced sa1 jiao1, not sa3 jiao1. Not sure which is right,
esp. if dictionaries list sa3 jiao.
\_ The problem is there can be playful acting behaviour that is
cute and innocent that cannot be considered as sa jiao.
sa jiao seems to always involve a woman, girl or young boy, and
\_ Yes, this is getting close.
Sa jiao seems to always involve a woman, girl or young boy, and
the intended target has to be one of the following: boyfriend,
husband, or an elder (mom, dad, grandparents, teacher, etc.).
A woman/girl who sa jiao is playfully acting in a cute child-
like manner, and is asking for and expecting that she would
be loved and pampered in return.

1/4 V3: What is the relationship between kazaa and Morpheus?
Why do the Morphues temp files say "kazadownload..." -crebbs
\_ same core program, different skin
\_ same spyware?
\_ so they say.
\_ so WHO says? I have checked for the registry entry on
2 (win2k) machines with morpheus and neither has it.
Nor do they have the executable (DLDER.exe) -tcrebbs
Nor do they have the executable (DLDER.exe) -crebbs
\_ were you running the latest versions?
\_ so thereg says.

1/4 http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-8358574.html?tag=mn_hd
\_ Did nweaver post this because he was quoted in the article? :-)
\_ This guy picked the Christmas week to notify AOL and then claimed
waiting for a week is too long. Hmm. Maybe he just wanted the
publicity.
\_ The article I read said that AOL didn't even bother to respond
to him. It's not just that they didn't fix it in the first
week after he reported it -- they didn't even acknowledge that
the problem *existed*. Then when he goes public they fix
it in 24 hours? Sounds like he was right to go public.
\_ At most tech companies, there was no one around to respond
to anything from Dec. 22 - Jan. 1.
\_ Sounds like the best time to exploit a hole :)
\_ I can't think of any legitimate reason for their
escalation path for security problems to be broken,
even for holidays. Whether they failed to respond out
of arrogance or incompetence doesn't make much of a
difference.
\_ suppose you find a major security hole in AIM. Whom
do you email? Does AOL have a special email address
hotline for reporting critical exploits? Do they
publicize it? I'd guess that the answer to at least
one of those questions is "no". So now you're left
with filing a bug report using the standard support
channels, which most likely get flooded with mail from
clueless newbies. Do the real developers field all
these questions, or does a low-paid grunt deal with
them? Does this support grunt check email every day
during his vacation? give him a break.
\_ When I call AOL tech support, I usually
get prompt and complete service. signed, AOLuser
\_ You send it to support. It is the responsibility
of their support organization to classify the
incoming report correctly and advise their
management so they can direct it to the
appropriate engineers to repair. An organization
the size of AOL doesn't have a single support
grunt who goes on vacation and leaves the support
email unanswered; they have a large group of
people processing incoming support requests, and
there's always somebody there. The front line
people have more senior people they can escalate
things to (usually multiple levels). Even during
holidays and weekends, there should be somebody
on call in engineering capable of addressing the
problem. Coordintaing support and engineering like
this is hardly a problem unique to AOL. Oh, and
AOL never said they hadn't seen it; they said
they wanted more time to work on it.

1/4 Now we're willing to fight a war with big lies? How degraded have we
become?
http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/01/04/ret.bin.laden.leaflets/index.html
\_ Republicans as usual: Iran-Contra, Gulf of Tonkin, Chile, etc.
\_ Business as usual: Iran-Contra, Gulf of Tonkin, Chile, etc.
\_ Dave Culler in the article!!!
\_ Why does the Petagon insist on dropping leaflets written in
English and not in the local language of the region? Is this for our
consumption?
\_ I think the English leaflets are for the press only.
\_ Hey genius, war time propaganda is thousands of years older than
you are. Get over it. Do you think it was degrading that we
dropped leaflets in WWII? Gosh, some of them might not have told
the truth, too!
\_ and contrary to the movie about hiroshima, there no leaflets
dropped in hiroshima to warn them
\_ I was thinking Germany, however, I'd like to see a URL for
your hiroshima claim.
\_ What's wrong with lying to the enemy? They surrender, lives are
saved in the end. All is good.
\_ Well supposedly we want to tell the enemy that we are the good
guys, and good guys shouldn't lie.
\_ You're so naive. "good guys shouldn't lie". Yes, this is
just like your dungeons and dragons paladin going to
Afghanistan. Uh huh. Made level 2 yet?
\_ If you think they just lie to "the enemy," I've got a bridge
I'd like to sell you.
\_ By telling you the truth in real time they're telling the
enemy the truth in real time. I don't want to know the
truth at the moment Live On CNN With Geraldo! if it means
American lives are put at risk. It isn't a video game, it
is war. I *do* want to know the truth afterwards though.
Yes this does mean that sometimes things will happen in my
name as an American citizen that I don't want to happen and
I won't even know until maybe years later, but knowing
about it in real time wouldn't stop it.

1/4 W2K has by default a button next to the "start" button that is used
to clear the workspace. I'm not sure what happened to mine. How
do I get it back? What executable do I look for in creating the
shortcut? Thanks.
\_ What do you mean by "clear the desktop"? My W2k never had such a
button. Maybe you want the tool bars menu you can find by right-
clicking on the system tray?
\_ you mean the button that automatically minimizes/restores
everything? It's in the Quick Launch toolbar or something. Or hit
Win+D.
\_ right click on the desktop toolbar. choose the item for Toolbars.
make sure "quick launch" item is checked.
like the other people said, pressing WIN+ D will work. as well as
WIN + M
\_ oh crap. I toggled the "quick launch" thing and now the
quick launch buttons are on the right hand side. It used to be
next to the "start" button. Moving it to the left doesn't work.
the window icons always get in between the start button and the
quick launch buttons. Is there a way to fix this? the help
index doesn't seem to talk about the placement of quick launch
buttons.
\_ geez. what do you mean moving it to the left doesnt work?
it does. if you still cant get it to get to the left side,
close all apps, then with the vertical bar, shove it to the
left and it should stay there.
\_ Look, this guy is obviously a clueless Windoze moron.
\_ Yes and you're obviously a clueless linux bigot. So
what? You don't see anyone going off on you about it.
\_ Is there a diff between Win-M and Win-D?

1/3 Did anybody hear a radio piece (probably NPR) about a singer and
a group who recently put out an album with the title
"Bavarian Fruitcake" or something "Fruitcake"? I have done
searches on yahoo, google and amg, but can't find what I want.
Maybe it's too new.
\_ On the off chance you misheard, there's a compilation out called
"better than fruitcake"
On a related note, does anybody know who sings that song
"Kiss Me" ? I also did a search on amg and there are like
100 songs with that same title. The singer is a woman and I've
heard her on the radio quite a lot. She has kind of a weird
soulful voice. Thanks in advance.
\_ I suspect the "Kiss Me" you want is by a band called
"Sixpence None The Richer"
\_ Try looking at the Soundtrack for Not Another Teen Movie, or the
movie it was spoofing, She's All That. The guy above is correct.
\_ Using Morpheus, I only got two matches. One by Guster, one by the
band you want. See above.

1/4 critical section, mutex, semaphore, monitor
can anyone give a quick differentiation of them?
\_ google can. try it. http://www.google.com you can use a computer
to access it. -ali
\_ http://www.google.com Command not found.
\_ you taking the GRE? If you don't know what they are at this point,
it's probably too late.
\_ depends whether it is just a review, or if you are learning
it all for the first time.

1/4 Thanks for the http://www.2wire.com URL. Exactly what I needed.
update: dlink also sells homepna stuff for anyone else interested.
update 2: *Very* cheap USB and PCI options at Compusa. I can get
my house going 10mb with homepna for $30/box. I may or may not
need the $135 pna <-> ethernet converter. I'm guessing not since
these things all come with generic proxy/NAT/DHCP software. I'm
going to try this out over the weekend and let you know how it goes.
\_ All right, but if you decide that you want a 2wire box, post again
and I'll contact you.
\_ 2wire didn't seem any different than the other homepna 2.0
makers. Any reasons I'd want that over any of the 5 or 6 others
I saw in compusa today?

1/3 easy as pie, it gave me 'bavarian fruit bread':
"Music reviewer Colin Berry recommends the latest CD by
Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions." -lila
\_ Thank you, Lila and thanks to the others about
the Kiss Me song. It is Sixpence. I didn't know
about the movie soundtracks (haven't seen either)